Walking around Pepcom at CES 2016, putting our hands on some laptops and plenty of other things. Video shot by Nathan Fitch and Jennifer Hahn, edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link) For many years, it looked like Thunderbolt was destined to be a modern version of FireWire: faster and smarter than contemporary USB interfaces, but so rare outside of Macs that we haven’t seen a very wide range of Thunderbolt accessories beyond adapters and external hard drives. Thunderbolt versions 1 and 2 are available in most Macs sold between 2011 and now, but it has been included in just a handful of PC laptops and high-end motherboards. Thunderbolt 3 is turning that around. The port is suddenly beginning to show up in high-end offerings from just about every major PC OEM, starting with some Lenovo workstation laptops and Dell’s new XPS lineup and continuing in laptops and convertibles from HP , Acer , Intel , and others . Read 11 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Five years later, Thunderbolt is finally gaining some traction in PCs
